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Black Water

The Book of Fantastic Literature

A ground-breaking anthology of seventy-two stories evoking the darkness beyond the real world – hauntings, dreams, time warps, transformations, and dealings with God and the Devil – by  the world’s greatest writers, including Herman Hesse, Ursula LeGuin, Italo Calvino, Daphne du Maurier and Vladimir Nabokov.

First Edition

Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983
Softcover, xix; 967 p.

Selection, foreword, introductions,
biographical notes by Alberto Manguel
A. Bioy Casares, J. L. Borges, J. Cocteau, M. Denevi, A. P. de Madiargues, M. Mujica Lainez, S. Ocampo, M. Yourcenar
translated by Alberto Manguel

9780886190316

  • JULIO CORTÁZAR: House Taken Over
  • ROBERT S. HICHENS: How Love Came to Professor Guildea
  • I. A. IRELAND: Climax for a Ghost Story
  • TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
  • EDITH WHARTON: Pomegranate Seed
  • ADOLFO BIOY CASARES: Venetian Masks
  • RUDYARD KIPLING: The Wish House
  • RAY BRADBURY: The Playground
  • MANUEL MUJICA LAINEZ: Importance
  • MAX BEERBOHM: Enoch Soames
  • L. P. HARTLEY: A Visitor from Down Under
  • SAKI: Laura
  • AUTHOR UNKNOWN: An Injustice Revealed
  • GRAHAM GREENE: A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
  • M. R. JAMES: Excerpt from “A School Story”
  • CHARLES DICKENS: The Signalman
  • PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN: The Tall Woman
  • FRANCIS KING: A Scent of Mimosa
  • JEAN COCTEAU: Death and the Gardener (from Le Grand Ecart)
  • W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: Lord Mountdrago
  • GIOVANNI PAPINI: The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit
  • VIRGILIO PINERA: Insomnia
  • JULES VERNE: The Storm
  • AUTHOR UNKNOWN: A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments)
  • EDGAR ALLAN POE: The Facts in the Case of  M.Valdemar
  • DAPHNE DU MAURIER: Split Second
  • JORGE LUÍS BORGES: August 25, 1983
  • MARGUERITE YOURCENAR: How Wang-Fo Was Saved
  • ISAK DINESEN: Excerpt from “Peter and Rosa”
  • JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI: Tattoo
  • FLANN O’BRIEN: John Duffy’s Brother
  • DAVID GARNETT: Lady into Fox
  • BRUNO SCHULZ: Father’s Last Escape
  • HERMANN HESSE: A Man by the Name of Ziegler
  • ITALO CALVINO: The Argentine Ant
  • JOHN COLLIER: The Lady on the Grey
  • ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: The Queen of Spades
  • LAFCADIO HEARN: Of a Promise Kept
  • JUAN MANUEL: The Wizard Postponed
  • W. W. JACOBS: The Monkey’s Paw
  • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: The Bottle Imp
  • D. H. LAWRENCE: The Rocking-Horse Winner
  • JOANNE GREENBERG: Certain Distant Suns
  • JOÃO GUIMARÃES ROSA: The Third Bank of the River
  • HILAIRE BELLOC: Home
  • H. G. WELLS: The Door in the Wall
  • SILVINA OCAMPO: The Friends
  • CHARLES WILLIAMS: Et in Sempiternum Pereant
  • LÉON BLOY: The Captives of Longjumeau
  • VLADIMIR NABOKOV: The Visit to the Museum
  • RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA: Autumn Mountain
  • BRIAN MOORE: The Sight
  • ANDRÉ PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES: Clorinda
  • CYNTHIA OZICK: The Pagan Rabbi
  • OSCAR WILDE: The Fisherman and His Soul
  • LORD DUNSANY: The Bureau d’Echange de Maux
  • URSULA K. LE GUIN: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
  • FRANZ KAFKA: In the Penal Colony
  • MARCO DENEVI: A Dog in Dürer’s Etching
  • “The Knight, Death and The Devil”
  • HOWARD FAST: The Large Ant
  • ALEX COMFORT: The Lemmings
  • J. B. PRIESTLEY: The Grey Ones
  • HORACIO QUIROGA: The Feather Pillow
  • WALTER DE LA MARE: Seaton’s Aunt
  • HENRY JAMES: The Friends of the Friends
  • HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: The Travelling Companion
  • STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT: The Curfew Tolls
  • MARCEL AYMÉ: The State of Grace
  • E. M. FORSTER: The Story of a Panic
  • GEORGE HITCHCOCK: An Invitation to the Hunt
  • NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: Excerpt from “American Notebooks”
  • O. HENRY: The Dream

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